House File 77 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY TJEPKES
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act providing an excess weight allowance for vehicles hauling
2 dried distillers grains.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 321.466, subsection 5, Code 2009, is
1 2 amended to read as follows:
1 3 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to A person shall
1 4 not operate a motor truck, trailer, truck tractor, road
1 5 tractor, semitrailer, or combination thereof, or any such
1 6 vehicle equipped with a transferable auxiliary axle or axles,
1 7 on the public highways with a gross weight exceeding that the
1 8 gross weight for which it is registered by more than five
1 9 percent of the gross weight for which it is registered,;
1 10 provided, however, that any vehicle or vehicle combination
1 11 referred to herein in this subsection, while carrying a load
1 12 of raw farm products, soil fertilizers, including ground
1 13 limestone, raw dairy products, or livestock, live poultry,
1 14 eggs, or dried distillers grains may be operated with a gross
1 15 weight of twenty=five percent in excess of the gross weight
1 16 for which it is registered.
1 17 EXPLANATION
1 18 This bill allows a vehicle or combination of vehicles
1 19 carrying a load of dried distillers grains to be operated with
1 20 a gross weight of 25 percent in excess of the registered gross
1 21 weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles. Dried
1 22 distillers grains, the product remaining after ethanol is
1 23 extracted from corn mash, is used as an ingredient in
1 24 livestock feed. Currently, the excess weight allowance
1 25 applies to vehicles transporting raw farm products, soil
1 26 fertilizers, livestock, or live poultry.
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